another small fix: guesses now saved/restored correctlyfor puzzles from 0 as well.

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beaker [ Mon Dec 17, 2012 12:31 am ]

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Re: long overdue: guesses now also saved

Patrick: I must have missed the post that explained how to "pencil" in a guess......where is it......or could you give a quick explanation.......Ken

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pnm [ Mon Dec 17, 2012 3:32 pm ]

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Re: long overdue: guesses now also saved

beaker wrote:

Patrick: I must have missed the post that explained how to "pencil" in a guess......where is it......or could you give a quick explanation.......Ken

It's buried near the end of the explanation text: hold down the Shift key + a numberto "pencil it in" as a guess.

Patrick

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beaker [ Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:35 am ]

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Re: long overdue: guesses now also saved

I guess that is too much for this old computer.......pushing the shift key causes the entire puzzle to shift position!!!

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bram [ Tue Dec 18, 2012 1:09 am ]

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beaker wrote:

I guess that is too much for this old computer.......pushing the shift key causes the entire puzzle to shift position!!!

Patrick's method for "pencilling in" numbers does work when I use the row of number keys above the letter keys. But I encounter the same problem as beaker does when I use the number keys on the numeric keypad at the right side of the keyboard (in Firefox 17.0.1 on Windows Vista). It seems like the keys on the numeric keypad are in some way "interpreted" as arrow keys even though NumLock is on.

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beaker [ Tue Dec 18, 2012 3:04 am ]

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Thanks for the suggestion but "no go"......using the numbers above the letters results in no shifting but no numbers either!!!

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pnm [ Wed Dec 19, 2012 2:25 pm ]

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beaker wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion but "no go"......using the numbers above the letters results in no shifting but no numbers either!!!

In any case I need to find a more general solution for "reading the keyboard".There have been issues in the past with international keyboard (e.g. Spanish) sendingdifferent codes for the same keys. And recently someone wrote to me about issueswith a German keyboard.

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cecileb [ Sat Dec 22, 2012 4:10 am ]

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Hello everyone,

I want to compliment you, Patrick, on all of your fine work on the pencil feature. From the time it first appeared I have found it very useful. Now that it's been fine-tuned I'm amazed that I can solve so many of the puzzles online (even some 9x9s!) that I used to have to copy into my photoshop program and solve laboriously with a lot of copying and pasting of numbers.